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A binaural rendering framework for personal sound zones (PSZs) is proposed to enable multiple head-tracked listeners to receive fully independent stereo audio programs. Current PSZ systems typically rely on monophonic rendering and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Hao Jiang , Edgar Choueiri

A deep learning framework for dynamically rendering personal sound zones (PSZs) with head tracking is presented, utilizing a spatially adaptive neural network (SANN) that inputs listeners' head coordinates and outputs PSZ filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Yue Qiao , Edgar Choueiri

Personalized binaural audio reproduction is the basis of realistic spatial localization, sound externalization, and immersive listening, directly shaping user experience and listening effort. This survey reviews recent advances in deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Xikun Lu , Yunda Chen , Zehua Chen , Jie Wang , Mingxing Liu , Hongmei Hu , Chengshi Zheng , Stefan Bleeck , Jinqiu Sang

A Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) characterizes how a human ear receives sounds from a point in space, and depends on the shapes of one's head, pinna, and torso. Accurate estimations of HRTFs for human subjects are crucial in enabling…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Navid H. Zandi , Awny M. El-Mohandes , Rong Zheng

The demand for realistic virtual immersive audio continues to grow, with Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) playing a key role. HRTFs capture how sound reaches our ears, reflecting unique anatomical features and enhancing spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Lorenzo Picinali , Aidan O. T. Hogg

Head-related transfer function (HRTF) capture the information that a person uses to localize sound sources in space, and thus is crucial for creating personalized virtual acoustic experiences. However, practical HRTF measurement systems may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Fei Ma , Thushara D. Abhayapala , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe , Xingyu Chen

Most existing sound field reconstruction methods target point-to-region reconstruction, interpolating the Acoustic Transfer Functions (ATFs) between a fixed-position sound source and a receiver region. The applicability of these methods is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Xingyu Chen , Sipei Zhao , Fei Ma , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

The objective of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) applications are to seamlessly integrate virtual sound sources within a real environment. It is critical for these applications that virtual sources are localised precisely at the intended…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Vincent Martin , Lorenzo Picinali

Personal sound zone (PSZ) reproduction system, which attempts to create distinct virtual acoustic scenes for different listeners at their respective positions within the same spatial area using one loudspeaker array, is a fundamental…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Wenye Zhu , Jun Tang , Xiaofei Li

Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are starting to be introduced in many commercial immersive audio applications and are crucial for realistic spatial audio rendering. However, one of the main hesitations regarding their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Shaojie Zhang , Stefan Goetz , Lorenzo Picinali , Ozgur B. Akan , Aidan O. T. Hogg

A Personal Sound Zones (PSZ) system aims to generate two or more independent listening zones that allow multiple users to listen to different music/audio content in a shared space without the need for wearing headphones. Most existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Sipei Zhao , Guoqiang Zhang , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

Accurate upsampling of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) from sparse measurements is crucial for personalized spatial audio rendering. Traditional interpolation methods, such as kernel-based weighting or basis function expansions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Xingyu Chen , Hanwen Bi , Fei Ma , Sipei Zhao , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

In this work, we propose a deep beamforming framework for speech enhancement in dynamic acoustic environments. The framework learns time-varying beamformer weights from noisy multichannel signals via a deep neural network, guided by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ilai Zaidel , Sharon Gannot

Spatial audio and 3-Dimensional sound rendering techniques play a pivotal and essential role in immersive audio experiences. Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are acoustic filters which represent how sound interacts with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ludovic Pirard

Binaural rendering of ambisonic signals is of broad interest to virtual reality and immersive media. Conventional methods often require manually measured Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). To address this issue, we collect a paired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yin Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong , Junjie Shi , Shilei Liu , Xuzhou Ye , Ju-chiang Wang , Junping Zhang

Personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for ensuring a realistic auditory experience over headphones, because they take into account individual anatomical differences that affect listening. Most machine learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 You Zhang , Andrew Francl , Ruohan Gao , Paul Calamia , Zhiyao Duan , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla

A typical neural speech enhancement (SE) approach mainly handles speech and noise mixtures, which is not optimal for singing voice enhancement scenarios. Music source separation (MSS) models treat vocals and various accompaniment components…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Weiming Xu , Zhouxuan Chen , Zhili Tan , Shubo Lv , Runduo Han , Wenjiang Zhou , Weifeng Zhao , Lei Xie

Multi-resolution spectro-temporal features of a speech signal represent how the brain perceives sounds by tuning cortical cells to different spectral and temporal modulations. These features produce a higher dimensional representation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Rahil Parikh , Nadee Seneviratne , Ganesh Sivaraman , Shihab Shamma , Carol Espy-Wilson

This paper presents a simulation-based approach to own voice detection (OVD) in hearing aids using a single microphone. While OVD can significantly improve user comfort and speech intelligibility, existing solutions often rely on multiple…

The careful construction of audio representations has become a dominant feature in the design of approaches to many speech tasks. Increasingly, such approaches have emphasized "disentanglement", where a representation contains only parts of…

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